Billy Corgan took a break from recording the upcoming 44-song Smashing Pumpkins album, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, to partake in a puppet wrestling showdown this past Friday that resulted in some prime blog bait. Episode one of “Gothageddon” features primarily a feud between Corgan and a puppet of The Cure’s Robert Smith, but Corgan-voiced versions of Amanda Palmer, Bauhaus’ Peter Murphy, and ex-SP guitarist James Iha make pseudo cameos as well.
I’m not going to even try to explain the plot of this intentionally batsh*t crazy video, but I will say it has the same “bad trip” feel of Neil Young’s lip dub vid, Ryan Adams’ GORF review, and the Kanye West/Spike Jonze short “We Were Once A Fairytale.” The Internet was made for this stuff, right?